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kaeso
Acolyte
USA
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 Posted - 21 Jun 2006 : 22:03:00
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Great literature is escapist, but it changes you, and you come back to your world with new eyes. D&D is the first game that's ever done that for me.
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KnightErrantJR
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 21 Jun 2006 : 23:01:56
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Its kind of the base for the first half of the campaign. Yes, Daggerford does seem a bit more corrupt in order to make it match Diamond Lake, but that's why in my set up I made it so at the "halfway" point the PCs could take a little bit of time off, figure out the Malaugrym involvement, and set things right, then move on with saving the world.
Its kind of like the "Scouring of the Shire" bit of LOTR, except in the middle instead of at the end of the story. |
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kaeso
Acolyte
USA
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Posted - 25 Jun 2006 : 03:40:01
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So... does anyone have any idea where I should run it? I still can't decide  I gotta decide by Thursday |
Great literature is escapist, but it changes you, and you come back to your world with new eyes. D&D is the first game that's ever done that for me.
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Dargoth
Great Reader
Australia
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Posted - 25 Jun 2006 : 03:50:50
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Originally posted by kaeso
So... does anyone have any idea where I should run it? I still can't decide I gotta decide by Thursday
If you want to keep the campaign in the Moonsea region you could use Phlan as Diamond Lake |
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Emperor Sigismund
"Its good to be the King!"
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ericlboyd
Forgotten Realms Designer
USA
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Posted - 28 Jun 2006 : 04:07:24
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Originally posted by Snotlord
I never really got why Daggerford had to be corrupted in the first place. The corruption of Diamond Lake has absolutely no effect on the Age of Worms story, its to just finish to create a darker setting.
My "design principles" for the Age of Worms conversion were to illustrate how to adapt every single facet of the AP into the Realms. My thought was to go overboard in this respect, which then allows the DM to back off if they want. If I'd gone the other way, light conversions, I would have felt like I was leaving all the work to the DMs.
So, in your example, I wanted to show HOW Daggerford could have become corrupted. As to whether or not it should be for any particular campaign, that's left up to the DM. It certainly works just as well with the corruption as withouth.
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kaeso
Acolyte
USA
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Posted - 13 Jul 2006 : 21:09:20
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Waterdeep it is! I just got City of Splendors today, can't wait to read it  . |
Great literature is escapist, but it changes you, and you come back to your world with new eyes. D&D is the first game that's ever done that for me.
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Kalin Agrivar
Senior Scribe
Canada
956 Posts |
Posted - 13 Jul 2006 : 21:20:29
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| instead of using Daggerford, why not one of those pirate hold-villages mention in Volo's Guide to the Sword Coast? or just put Diamond Lake along the coast in that unclaimed area between Daggerford and Waterdeep? |
Kalin Xorell El'Agrivar
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Na-Gang
Learned Scribe
United Kingdom
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Posted - 14 Jul 2006 : 14:12:52
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I have considered running AoW in FR, substituting an aspect of Moander for Kyuss, but then I love Moander and would use him/it in place of almost anything if I could.
If you fiddle about a bit with Moander's profile, he's already got rot (undead) and corruption (nasty wormy things) so it wouldn't be too much of a stretch IMO. |
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Kalin Agrivar
Senior Scribe
Canada
956 Posts |
Posted - 14 Jul 2006 : 14:25:06
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Originally posted by Na-Gang
I have considered running AoW in FR, substituting an aspect of Moander for Kyuss, but then I love Moander and would use him/it in place of almost anything if I could.
If you fiddle about a bit with Moander's profile, he's already got rot (undead) and corruption (nasty wormy things) so it wouldn't be too much of a stretch IMO.
I thought so too but I was leaning more towards just having Kyuss as what he was before...mad wizard, soon-to-be-god, etc. probably be a Imaskari or Netherese wizard
but I was thinking more like of some sort of ancient magic user from Zakhara and his ancient jungle city would be placed in that archipelago of islands off the west coast, or maybe in the south near the Isle of Eephants...Near Kog or something
I haven't decided if I like the whole Jergal-spellweaver connection though |
Kalin Xorell El'Agrivar
- High Mage of the Arcane Assembly
- Lore Keeper of the Vault of Ancestors
- 3rd Son of the Lord of the Stand |
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Fellfire
Master of Realmslore
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Posted - 11 Feb 2015 : 12:26:38
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| Has anybody compiled all of these web enhancement/conversion notes? For the first time Paizo's website is giving me a hard time. |
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Love is a lie. Only hate endures. Light is blinding. Only in darkness do we see clearly.
"Oh, you think darkness is your ally? You merely adopted the dark. I was born in it, molded by it. I didn't see the light until I was already a man, by then it was nothing to me but.. blinding. The shadows betray you because they belong to me." - Bane The Dark Knight Rises
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Is anyone going to try and run a FR Age of Worms?
